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Updated: June 7, 2025


I feel really that I have set myself up like an animated ninepin to be knocked down by the first thorough-going spiritualist who cares to bowl at me. But whatever else they think of me sceptical though they deem me on subjects where perhaps you are, many of you, a little prone to dogmatize I claim the character at least of an honest sceptic.

He says he was very good at it when he was a boy." "So you knocked over this fourteen-year-old boy like a ninepin. Well, to be sure, I am surprised." And the doctor eyed his niece quizzically over his spectacles. "You're quite a dangerous young person to meet on a country road." "Well, he called Blanche's hair 'carrots," said Marjory, flushing. "Just like a boy.

My fetish of intellectual integrity went down like a ninepin before the appeal of a woman no longer young and distinctly foolish, but full of those dear contradictions and irrelevancies that will always make flesh and blood prevail against a syllogism. When I took leave of Mrs.

Don't you see? I always remain no bigger than a ninepin." "But you cannot grow," replied the Fairy. "Why?" "Because puppets never grow. They are born puppets, live puppets, and die puppets." "Oh, I am sick of being a puppet!" cried Pinocchio, giving himself a slap. "It is time that I became a man." "And you will become one, if you know how to deserve it." "Not really?

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